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The Peeves: real estate, micro-homes, landlords, home renovation, financial ignorance, S&MPut a Cap on It: Enough artifice—the twee shops, the stupid hobbies, the pet causes. This episode satirizes the stuff that actually makes a city: real estate. The show opens with Fred and Carrie in an advertisement for one of those tiny, trendy homes. Fred and Carrie’s characters in it have everything: ...
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The Peeves: sexual orientation, stay-at-home-dads, feminism, male feminists, ridesharing programsPut a Cap on It: This episode isn’t based around a particular theme, it’s just a collection of sketches. Well, maybe it’s loosely themed around sexuality? You tell me.The show opens with a PSA about National Coming Out Day (which is actually October 11), that encourages people to come out as different ...
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The Peeves: Fourth of July parties, saying goodbye at parties, punk parties, fireworks, the Deep Web Put a Cap on It: This episode’s a lot like the third from this season, "Healthcare": a bunch of sketches revolving around one theme. This time around, the theme is the Fourth of July. On a rainy Thursday in February. Whether poor planning or deliberate sadism, it amounts to the same. Anyway, it’s ...
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The Peeves: Animal rights activism, goths, taxidermy, San Diego, timeshares, shitty YouTube conspiracy videos, picking people up at the airport.Put a Cap on It: After messing around with two episodes that stuck with one story arc, and a third that slapped together a bunch of subpar sketches that all had to do with, uh, healthcare (which ran, by total coincidence, I'm sure, exactly three weeks and one ...
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The Peeves: Hypochondria, non-Western medicine, raw milk, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, organ transplants, water aerobics.Put a Cap on It: If you thought Republicans were the only ones out to skewer healthcare, then you, my friend, were mistaken. It’s Fred and Carrie’s target in the latest episode of Portlandia.The season’s first two episodes found the show doing away with its sketch format, opting ...
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The Peeves: Couples' therapy, stepparents, masculinity, GoPro culture, elaborate wedding proposals that go viral on YouTube.Put a Cap on It: The second episode of the season begins with an ad for Creative Jungle Digital Playground, a media production company—err, glorified wedding videography service. It then cuts to Nina (Fred) and Lance (Carrie)—perhaps best known from Season 1’s “cacao” ...
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Sleater-Kinney were a fairly well-known band when it went on hiatus in 2006. Thanks in no small part to Carrie Brownstein transforming into a bonafide mainstream celebrity, though, the reunited group's profile is arguably higher now than it ever was during its initial 11-year run. Case in point: This promo video for new album No Cities To Love, featuring a gaggle of famous folks—including Ellen ...
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